The Sunday Herald – Sport
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- The Sunday Herald – Sport
- New Lothrop won state girls basketball championship the right way
- Giuseppe Bergomi: Inter Milan lack confidence
- Drive-by ‘Development’
- Backgrounders | Research | Economist.com
The Sunday Herald – Sport
Sunday Herald – Mar 9, 2008
Despite Javier’s automotive munificence, Espanyol are not a wealthy club and they’ve built their side with guile and savvy more than cold, hard cash. Credit must go to Valverde and his sporting director, Paco Herrera, formerly Rafa Benitez’s number two at Anfield. The side is a blend of home-grown kids – there could be as many as five on Wednesday – and bargain buys who were written off elsewhere. Ivan De La Pena is, of course, the most extreme example. Ten years ago he was the brightest star in Barcelona’s young midfield, the heir apparent to Pep Guardiola, spraying balls all over the Nou Camp with supreme confidence. He moved to Lazio for £13m, in the summer of 1998 and, almost overnight, his career seemed to die. In the next four years he bounced around between Lazio, Marseille and Barcelona, making a total of 10 league starts… And yet, bit by bit, he lifted himself and his new club. Espanyol’s midfield is built in such a way as to insulate him and his most obvious weaknesses, the ones that prevented him from making the grade (lack of pace, personality and physical strength) earlier in his career. With a tough-tacking midfielder like the home-grown Moises at his side, De La Pena can still provide enough creativity on the attacking end without becoming a liability defensively. Out wide, Espanyol rely on other illustrious cast-offs, such as Francisco Rufete, who was shown the door after five years at Valencia, and Luis Garcia, a Real Madrid product who was let go before he had a chance to shine. The latter, who can also play as a centre-forward, has arguably been the side’s best player this season, along with the Cameroonian goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. But Espanyol supporters are perhaps most proud of the fact that the spine of their team is made up of home-grown players. With the central defensive pairing of Daniel Jarque and Marc Torrejon at the back, the aforementioned Moises in midfield and the inspirational Raul Tamudo up front Espanyol are a rarity in the modern game.
New Lothrop won state girls basketball championship the right way
mlive.com – Mar 9, 2008
“We’ve known each other since preschool. That’s why we have such great chemistry on our team. I think everybody’s been here since elementary school. Wearing the uniform means something in New Lothrop.
Giuseppe Bergomi: Inter Milan lack confidence
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 9, 2008
I think players who play in England are more free in their mind on the pitch. But it’s our culture that we have to find a problem. “Given that Bergomi was given his chance so young, it is remarkable that he believes one of the biggest problems in Italy is that their home-grown youngsters do not get an opportunity. He says: “In Italy, we are really frightened to give youngsters a chance. “Inter have a good young player in Francesco Bolzoni, who has played in the Champions League but they don’t even let him in the team now. They preferred to get Maniche on loan from Atletico Madrid.
Drive-by ‘Development’
Jamaica Observer – Mar 9, 2008
Mr Patterson handed much of this treasure over to Mr Robert Cartade for the construction of a gated community on state-owned land. No one knows how much the deal was worth. All we know is that we have lost forever, records of civilisations which may have been superior to ours at least in their respect for human dignity. It may be useful to remember that Schliemann excavated six levels of ancient Troy, one under the other. Right now, further depredations are afoot. Falmouth, that gorgeous if neglected Georgian masterpiece, is about to be botoxed and cosmetically altered in the interest of the cruise-shipping industry and its attendant gimmick ‘attractions’ while various unsavoury bean counters hold options to destroy the Cockpit Country and to sequester the entire Trelawny coast from public access. One part of this storied coast, Stewart Castle at Carey Park near Duncans is an archaeological and biological treasure which is even now being explored by people from the University of Kentucky who have found artifacts of slavery, both of the masters and the slaves, and of the Tainos, about all of which we remain totally ignorant… And they got their sculptural rock from fifty miles or more away from where they put them up. Talk about Vision!
In the Egyptian exhibition, I remember particularly the statue of an Egyptian queen which I, and many others more expert than I, consider to be one of the most beautiful man-made objects in the world. It also seemed fairly clear that most of the Pharaohs must have been ethnically African and that despite all the ethnographers to the contrary, the Egyptian civilisation was home-grown in Africa and not imported from anywhere else. For Egypt and Mexico, history and archaeology are potent attractions, pulling in millions of visitors. Here in Jamaica we build roads over sites believed to be Taino, although we don’t know if they may be even more ancient. Between Moneague in St Ann and Point Hill in St Catherine at a place called Union Hill, there is what appears to be a pyramid of stone which some people say is an idiosyncratically designed coffee barbecue. Of course it can’t be a pyramid! Jamaica has no prehistory worth considering!
So although we don’t know whether Union Hill really is an Olmec pyramid as I think, we may soon allow the bauxite companies to level it in the interest of foreign exchange, as they have been unleashed to savage and maim the landscape surrounding the birthplace of Norman Manley at Roxburgh in Manchester.
Backgrounders | Research | Economist.com
economist.com – Mar 9, 2008
The former was caused by a spate of home-grown financial scandals; the latter from an influx of foreign financial houses since the 1970s. After a series of failed mergers, pressure is building on the London Stock Exchange as it.